Karate Kid

Dalton started Karate classes for the first time this week.  He really seems to be enjoying it so far.  He gets to go two times a week but the coolest part about it was that he earned a two month Karate Scholarship through the library reading program.  I wish the library did a reading program all year round.  So far this summer Dalton and Addie have earned free circus tickets, about eight hamburgers from Whataburger, an ABC puzzle, free drink/dessert coupons to several restaurants in town, a ticket to select a prize from the treasure chest (which we have yet to do), Karate lessons and they are entered to win several more drawings to come.  Addie doesn’t quite enjoy reading as much as Dalton does yet, but she is able to sit through an entire book now.  She will even bring me books on occasion and stand there until I start reading it to her.

Here are a few pictures of our Karate Kid…

Dalton proudly wearing his Little Dragons uniform before his first class.  The uniform was included in the scholarship!

Dalton playing the “concentration” game.  He is the one sitting on the floor in front of the teacher holding the little girl upside down. During this game, the kids have to sit with their legs crossed, hands on their knees, without moving, laughing or smiling.  The teachers, of course, go around poking and prodding at them trying to get them to move.  This was the second time they played the game.  The first time Dalton got out quickly, as did all but one of the other kids who is a bit older than the rest.  The second time they played, all the kids again were out quickly except Dalton and the older girl.  The teacher picked the little girl up, swung her back and forth in front of Dalton and sat her down so they were eye to eye, neither of which laughed or smiled.  The teacher then picked Dalton up, tipped him on his back and left him there for a few seconds.  Gravity finally got the best of him and his legs fell down and were no long crossed so he was out but not without first impressing me and the teachers since this was his first time at Karate.  Now he just keeps asking when he will be learning to break the boards like the bigger kids.